ψάμμος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, but in <span class="bibl">Archim.<span class="title">Aren.</span>1.1</span>, al., always ὁ:—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[sand]], used by Hom. for [[ψάμαθος]] only in <span class="bibl">Od.12.243</span>, later very freq., <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.71</span>, etc.: pl., [[grains of sand]], αἱ ἀπ' ἀλλήλων ἐσκεδασμέναι ψάμμοι <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">P.</span>1.130</span>: [[proverb|prov.]], ψάμμος ἀριθμὸν περιπέφευγεν <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>2.98</span>; <b class="b3">οἶδα δ' ἐγὼ ψάμμου τ' ἀριθμόν</b> Orac. ap. <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.47</span>; <b class="b3">ἐκ ψάμμου σχοινίον πλέκειν</b>, of labour in vain, Aristid.2.309J.; of something worthless, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Wi.</span>7.9</span>, D. Chr.77/<span class="bibl">8.30</span>; ψάμμου ἄξιον Oenom. ap. <span class="bibl">Eus.<span class="title">PE</span>5.21</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> metallic ore used by alchemists, in pl., Olymp.Alch.<span class="bibl">p.106B.</span>, <span class="bibl">Zos.Alch. p.239</span> B. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">ἡ ψ</b>. the [[sandy desert]] of Libya, the [[sand]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.25</span>, <span class="bibl">4.173</span>; πλείστης ψάμμου <span class="title">OGI</span>666.27 (Egypt, i A. D.). (Prob. <b class="b3">Ψαφ-μος</b>, cf. [[ψαφαρός]], [[ψῆφος]], Lat. [[sabulum]].) </span>